LAI Tim
Born in Stouffville Ontario.
This cartoonist, illustrator, graphic and web designer, created the online cartoon Lemon Inc. about a child who runs his lemonade stand like a corporation.
WORK:
ILLUSTRATOR:
BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content story:
Toronto Comics v. 2. Ed., Steve Andrews et al. Toronto Comics Anthology, May 2015: ‘Toronto The Rude.” Writ., J.M. Frey: 70-72.
SOURCE:
Article book:
Toronto Comics v. 2. May 2015: “Tim Lai”: 198.
LAGACÉ Gisèle
eastcoastcomicexpo.com/guests/Gisele-lagace/
“Anyone who knows me knows I’m not repressed when it comes to sex. I joke about it all the time, so much so it’s reflected in the comics I work on. It’s also very important to me that it’s shown in a positive way. I want to help people to be more open about sex, and understanding of others too.” The Secret Loves Of Geek Girls. 2015: 175.
Born 16 June 1970 and raised in New Brunswick.
She has circled from New Brunswick through Montréal and Ottawa and back to New Brunswick. After she graduated from high school in the late 1980’s, she first tried music. In the 1990’s, she went to Montréal where she became a bassist in the all-female band Barbarella. This did not work for her and so she opted for cartooning and attended the nearest program she could get for that, a graphic arts design course for a year at l’Université de Moncton followed by a college degree from La Cité collêgiale in Ottawa. She began as a graphic designer at the Avenue Design Group in Ottawa creating logos and laying out ads for newspapers.
In 2000, she began her first webcomic Cool Cat Studio for which she won Web Cartoonists’ Choice Award for Best New Talent in 2001 and in 2002 co-won the Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent. She discontinued Cool Cat Studio at the end of 2001. Beginning in 2004 she worked with writer T. Campbell to co-create the series Penny and Aggie. Over 2007-2008 they returned to Cool Cat Studio. In 2008, she began Ménage à 3, with co-writer David Lumsden. This series revolved around “Gary”, Suzz and “Desirée”. It was the first of a number of web comics produced by this partnership. It was so successful it allowed her to quit her job and become a full-time cartoonist. In the same year Gisèle and David organized Pixie Trix Comics.
In 2009, Gisèle created another series Eerie Cuties, which revolved around high school vampire sisters , Nina and Layla Delacroix. David later joined this series as co-writer. Together in 2011, they initiated Magik Chicks (2011-2015). It involved the activities of three teenage witches Melissa Hellrune, Jacqui Brightmoon and Cerise Darkshade who together formed the Hellrune Coven. In 2013, Gisèle, by herself began and ended a spinoff of Ménage à 3, called Sticky Dilly Buns, involving Dillon, a gay actor; Amber, “Gary’s” friend, Dillon’s roommate, and a former porn star wanting to be an actress and Ruby, Amber’s BBA graduate sister who moves in with them. They were supporting characters in Ménage à 3. Stories attached to both of these series appeared in The Secret Loves Of Geek Girls. Gisele also did the cover for this book.
Gisèle’s work in Pixie Trix Comics led to her being asked to work on Archie Comics 635, (2012) 636, 639 and 646 plus the Archie Meets The Ramones graphic booklet, and several Archie covers. It probably helped that members of the “Archie” group noted that her drawing style was heavily influenced by Dan DeCarlo and Stan Goldberg. Another strong influence is anime. Gisèle has also noted that webcomics demand a different style from traditional comics. “When you’re reading a comic book, if you just read two or three pages, it doesn’t really stand [on its own]. With webcomics each date needs to stand [alone]. It’s either going to be funny or really suspenseful … so we’re always trying to land that gag.” (cbc.ca/arts/gisele-lagace-archie-comics-menage-3-1.6953413).
From Archie Comics she has contributed to Betty Boop, Jem and the Holograms, and Unbelievable Givenpool. Beginning in 2018, she has co-created Exosisters with writer Ian Boothly.
WORK:
ILLUSTRATOR:
BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Cover book front:
The Secret Loves Of Geek Girls. Col., Shouri. Bedside Press, 2015.
ILLUSTRATOR & CO-WRITER:
BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content story:
The Secret Loves Of Geek Girls. Bedside Press, 2015: “Ménage à 3.” Co-writ., David Lumsden. Col., Shouri: 170- 174.
CO-CARTOONIST:
BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content story:
The Secret Loves Of Geek Girls. Bedside Press, 2015: “Sticky Dilly Buns.” Co-car., Shouri: 175-79.
SOURCE:
Article book:
The Secret Loves Of Geek Girls. 2015: 170, 175.
Internet:
cbc.ca/arts/gisele-lagace-archie-comics-menage-3-1.6953413. Updated 31 August 2023. Accessed 5 April 2024.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisèle-Lagacé 3 April 2024.
gisellelagace.wixsite.com/gisellelagace/about Accessed 1 May 2020.
image comics.com/creator/gisèle-lagacé Accessed 3 April 2024.
pixietrixcomix.com/about us Accessed 3 April 2024.
Tvtropes.org/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/Magic Chicks. Accessed 5 May 2024.
GALLERY:
The Secret Loves Of Geek Girls 2015.: Front cover.
LAFRANCE Laurie
cornwalltourism.com/cornwall-native-turns-hometown-love-into-hip-fashion-line
Born and raised in Cornwall, she received a Bachelor of Design with an illustration major from the Ontario College of Art and Design.
She has done work for the Baltimore Symphonie Orchestra, Canada Post, Globe & Mail, Hillebrand Estates Winer, Nuvo Magazine, Owl, Radio Guide, Royal Ontario Museum, Scholastic & St. Martin’s Press Publishers, Starweek, This Magazine and Walrus Magazine.
She teaches at the Whitby Campus of Durham College in Whitby Ontario. In 2020, she launched Trendless Apparel, a clothing line specializing in loungewear as a sideline..
WORK:
ILLUSTRATOR:
PERIODICAL TEXT:
Content essay:
This Magazine, June/July 1986: “Gunpowder, Treason & Plot”. Writ., Martha Honey: 12.
Content program preview:
Radio Guide, 5-10, October 1985, “The Entertainers”. Writ., M.K.: 21.
Radio Guide, 5-12, December 19856: “Vanishing Point – Free To A Good Home”. Writ., unident.: 10.
Cover front:
The Toronto Star: Starweek TV Magazine July 1- July 8, 1995.
PERIODICAL TEXT & GRAPHIC:
Content information:
Owl, 23-1, Jan/Feb 1998: “The Jaguar.” Writ., unidentified: 14-15.
NEWSPAPER:
Content essay:
Globe & Mail, 24 December 1993: “When the job sneaks into your dreams”. Writ., C. Solomon: D3.
Content story text:
Globe & Mail, 24 Dec. 1999: “To Everything There Is A Season. ”Writ., Alistair MacLeod. D6-D7.
Cover subsection:
Globe & Mail: Section D, Books, 24 December 1999.
SOURCE:
Internet:
laurielafrance.com/about.htmi
cornwalltourism.com/cornwall-native-turns-hometown-love-into-hip-fashion-line
GALLERY:
Radio Guide, 5-10, October 1985: 21.
This Magazine, June/July 1986: 12.
Globe & Mail, 24 December 1993: D3.
Starweek TV Magazine July 1- July 8, 1995. Front cover.
LAFORGE Jean-Marie
Born in Belgium in 1946, he emigrated to Quebec in 1957. By 1973 he was contributing to Le Quotidien du Saguenay in Chicoutimi and has become its full time cartoonist.
SOURCE:
Article book:
The Hecklers. Writ. & Ed.., Peter Desbarates & Terry Mosher. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1979: 241.
LAFONTAINE Robert
Better known internationally he lives in Québec.
WORK:
CARTOONIST:
BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content cartoon editorial:
Caricature . Cartoons Canada. Ed., Terry Mosher. Linda Leith Publishing, 2012: 91.
SOURCE:
Book graphic and text:
Caricature . Cartoons Canada. Linda Leith Publishing, 2012: 84.
GALLERY:
“The Romantic.” Magazin’Art, 2007. Caricature.Cartoon Canada: 91.
LAFONTAINE Benoît
Born 1963, in Sherbrooke Québec.
This cartoonist who signs his work LAF, graduated in 1980 from Commercial Arts in Ottawa. He worked for a short time in advertising then switched to cartooning at age 22 years. He founded the Canadian Cartoon Company and distributed his material to 15 dailies and 12 weeklies across Canada. His work also appeared in This Magazine and Ottawa Magazine.
In the 1990’s, he spent three years, travelling in Asia.
He died in 2014.
WORK:
CARTOONIST:
BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY:
Content cartoon editorial:
Portfoolio: 1989 in Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Charles Gordon. Macmillan of Canada, 1989.
| Portfoolio …: The Year in Canadian Caricature. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Charles Gordon. Macmillan of Canada, …. | ||
| 6: 1990. | 7: 1991. | 8: 1992. |
Portfoolio 15: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons. Ed., Guy Badeaux . Writ., Jay Stone Macmillan of Canada, 1999.
ILLUSTRATOR:
PERIODICAL TEXT:
Content essay:
This Magazine, October 1988: “Rough Trade Gretzky, God and the Global Village”. Writ., Brian Fawcett: 30.
NEWSPAPER:
Content caricature for essay:
Toronto Star, 19 Feb. 1995: Whose side is Keith Spicer on?”. Writ., A. Zerbisias: C 1.
Toronto Star, 18 April 1998: Chrétien’s style confounds opposition”. Writ., unknown: B5
SOURCE:
Book graphic:
Portfoolio: 1989 in Canadian Caricature.1989; “Ben Lafontaine”: 211.
Portfoolio 15: The Year’s Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons.1999: “Ben Lafontaine”: 152.
GALLERY:
This Magazine, October 1988: 30.
Toronto Star, 18 April 1998: B5. “Jean Chrétien”.
Portfoolio 1989: 211.
Toronto Star, 19 February 1995: C 1. “Keith Spicer”.
Portfoolio 15, 1999: back cover.
LAFAVE Kim
https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/ggawards/klafave.htm
Born January 12, 1955, in Vancouver.
In the 1974 he studied graphic design & illustration in Capilano College then from 1975 to 1976 illustration at the Alberta College of Art and in 1976 at Illustrator’s Workshop Terrytown New York U.S.A.
He moved to Toronto where he did advertising and editorial work for various companies, periodicals and newspapers. For this work he has been honoured with Gold from the Society of Graphic Artists of Canada, Silver from the Art Director’s Club of Toronto, and Awards of Excellence from Communication Arts Magazine and NAEB.
He began illustrating books with The Mare’s Egg (January 1, 1981) adapted by Carole Spray. In 1988, he won the Governor General’s Award in the English language children’s illustrations division for Amo’s Sweater. In 1989, also for Amo’s Sweater he shared the Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award with the writer Janet Lunn and received the Ameilia Frances-Howard Gibbon Award. With Nicola I. Campbell he won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award for Shin-chi’s Canoe.
In the 1990’s, he returned to British Columbia. Shortly after he acquired the small publishing company: Nightwood Editions. To its publishing lineup he added a series of children’s titles with west coast themes. He sold it in 2000. At the same time he began digital painting selling to magazines like the New York Times.
In addition, Kim paints land and urbanscapes. Throughout the 2010’s he exhibited with Eleven Equal Artists at their annual Power of Paint show at Seaside Centre in Sechelt BC. He has also exhibited in Gibson’s Public Art Gallery and the Kube Gallery in Langley B.C..
WORK:
ILLUSTRATOR:
BOOK GRAPHIC:
Content story & Cover book & dust jacket wrap around:
Gubby Builds a Boat. Writ., Gary Kent. Harbour Publishing Co., 2012.
BOOK TEXT & GRAPHIC:
Content story & Cover book front & back:
Follow That Star. Writ., Kenneth Oppel. Kids Can Press, 1994: .
PERIODICAL TEXT:
Content essay:
Canadian Weekend, 10 Nov. 1979: “Wonderful Wonderful Wonder Weed.” Writ., David Street: 15.
| The City, Toronto Star Sunday Magazine …. |
| … 26 November 1978; 9.
…17 December 1978: “Eat And Stay Merry”. Writ., unknown: 8. “The Perennial Fan”. Writ., unknown: 9. … 7 January 1979: “Cher Chez La Femme”. Writ., unknown: 8. … 23 September 1979: Illustration only: 8. … 17 February 1980: “Ballard Is The Man Toronto Loves To Hate”. Writ., unknown: 15. |
Front Row Centre, September/October 1980: “Galaxie: Small Fry Television”. Writ., unknown: 14.
Content essay & Cover front:
Canadian Living July 1989 – Canadian Living Kids. “Wanna Play ‘Buzz’?” Writ., Deborah Davis: 73.
SOURCE:
Article book:
Gubby Builds a Boat. Harbour Publishing Co., 2012. Dust jacket.
Internet:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kim_LaFave
fitzhenry.ca/kim-lafave
kimlafavepaintings.com/about
nightwoodeditions.com/pages/about
GALLERY:
The City, 17 December 1978: “Eat And Stay Merry”: 8.
The City, 17 February 1980: “Ballard Is The Man Toronto Loves To Hate”.: 15.
Canadian Living July 1989 – Canadian Living Kids. Front cover.
Canadian Living July 1989 – Canadian Living Kids: 73.
Follow That Star, 1994: 31.
Gubby Builds a Boat, 2012. From page 20
LADY ACCIDENT
“Lady accident” is part of the “Pitiful Human-Lizard” community created by Jason Loo. We are gradually introduced to who will become “Lady Accident” from the first issue of Pitiful Human-Lizard where she is an unnamed participant, to the third issue where she emerges complete as Barb Martins a fourth grade teacher, that has the mind powers and that she is the one that really destroyed the monster worm, and defeated “Rabb The Malevolent” in the previous issues.
She is principal character in one sequence of stories involving a conflict with “Eaton Peepers”. It begins as a backup story “Barb” in issue 3, continues in issue 4, then switches to the main feature in issue 5 where she is joined by “Pitiful Human Lizard” , “Majestic Rat” and “Mother Wonder”, and returns as the only super hero in the issue 14 conflict. In addition she is a main character, a support character, or simply makes a cameo appearance in several stand alone stories.
MEDIUM:
PERIODICAL GRAPHIC:
Content:
Serial:
| Pitiful Human-Lizard …: “Lady Accident.” Car., Jason Loo. Loo Harvest Group |
| 3, February 2015: “Barb.” Backup feature. Loo Harvest Group
5, August. 2015: “All Together Now.” Main feature. Loo Harvest Group |
Story:
| Pitiful Human-Lizard…: “Lady Accident.” Car., Jason Loo. Chapterhouse Comics Group. |
| 1, September 2015: “Lucky Lizard.” Cameo role. Main feature.
2, October 2015: “Date Night.”. Support character Main feature. 4, Dec. 2015: “Barb In The Electrical Pawn Of Eaton Peepers.” Backup feature. 6, Feb. 2016: “Shopping For Trouble.” Main character. Backup feature. 9, August, 2016: “School Talk.” Support character. Main feature. 11, December 2016: “All New Back At It Again” Main character. Backup feature. 10, May 2017: “Street Confessions”. Cameo role. Main feature. 14, June 2017: “Johnny’s Back.” Main feature. Chapterhouse Comics Group |
Cover front:
| Pitiful Human-Lizard …. Illus., Jason Loo. Chapterhouse Publishing Inc. | |||
| 2, October 2016. | 9, August, 2016. ( As Barb Martin). | 10, October 2016. | 14, June 2017. |
GALLERY:
The Pitiful Human Lizard, 14, June 2017: Lady Accident in her own costume.
The Pitiful Human Lizard, 10, October 2016: Front cover. Lady Accident using Human Lizard’s costume.